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 * Copyright (C) 2010, 2011 Neofonie GmbH
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0
 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
 * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
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package eu.dicodeproject.twitterstream.sink;

import twitter4j.Status;

import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * Implementors of this class provide a link to a tweet storage backend. Implementations must be thread safe.
 */
public interface TweetSink {
  /**
   * Stores a status to persistent memory.
   * @param status the tweet information to store.
   * @throws IOException in case storing the information fails.
   * */
  void store(Status status) throws IOException;
}
